Fibrosarcome cardiaque découvert par métastases cérébrales [Cardiac fibrosarcoma discovered by cerebral metastases]

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_401511B8D29E
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Sous-type
Synthèse (review): revue aussi complète que possible des connaissances sur un sujet, rédigée à partir de l'analyse exhaustive des travaux publiés.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Fibrosarcome cardiaque découvert par métastases cérébrales [Cardiac fibrosarcoma discovered by cerebral metastases]
Périodique
Revue Médicale de la Suisse Romande
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Hauser C., Guelpa G., Lopez J. L., Janzer R. C., Chaubert P., Baumann R. P.
ISSN
0035-3655 (Print)
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
1999
Volume
119
Numéro
10
Pages
833-837
Langue
français
Notes
PT - Case Reports PT - English Abstract PT - Journal Article PT - Review
Résumé
Primary heart tumors are rare, and the fibrosarcomas are exceptional. We present the findings in a 78 year old female who has been hospitalized in April 1997 with a history of 4 months of malaise, headaches and weight loss. Clinical examination showed a right lateral homonymous hemi-anopsia. Computed tomography (CT-Scan) of the brain showed two lesions in the occipital and temporal lobe, consistent with metastasis. Thoracic and abdominal-pelvic CT-Scan revealed a voluminous mass of the left auricle that has been interpreted as a probable sarcoma. Biopsy specimen of one of the cerebral lesions, performed at the Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV) on April 29th 1997, revealed fragments of a poorly differentiated sarcoma. After referral back to Neuchatel, the patient suffered suddenly three weeks later from a cerebral vascular insult with instant onset of deep coma. She deceased on May 27. At autopsy we found a neoplastic lesion of the left auricle with invasion of the pulmonary veins. The histological appearance is similar to the appearance of the cerebral metastasis, showing a proliferation of spindled cells with a partial positivity for Vimentine. It was classified as a fibrosarcoma. Metastasis were found only in the brain with postoperative ischemic left occipitotemporal necrosis and neoplastic emboli.--We are discussing the various incidences of cardiac neoplasms in autopsies or biopsies
Mots-clé
Aged/Autopsy/Biopsy/Brain Neoplasms/complications/diagnosis/secondary/Coma/etiology/Fatal Outcome/Female/Fibrosarcoma/Heart Neoplasms/Pathology/Humans/Stroke/Tomography,X-Ray Computed
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